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<p>[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 368899, member: 5833"]Not sure I'm correctly understanding how this moves. Does the second photo show it with only one end raised? Does it lift on the left as well? Is that business that looks like the handle for a pair of scissors a knob that moves the bowl?</p><p><br /></p><p>Fifteen inches seems very large for it to have been a toy at doll scale. Yet it was in with dolls. It looks to me like a fold-away work surface, the bowl suggests straight pins near at hand, although does not look large enough for pins? I'm headed in the direction of something to repair dolls or their clothes.</p><p><br /></p><p>Think if it were a saleman's model the real item would need to be at least 6 times larger, making the top surface very big. Could be it though. Given to the dolls' owner as a toy when no longer needed. If it relates to sewing, it would be right in there with other "girls'" toys, such as miniature ovens.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bronwen, post: 368899, member: 5833"]Not sure I'm correctly understanding how this moves. Does the second photo show it with only one end raised? Does it lift on the left as well? Is that business that looks like the handle for a pair of scissors a knob that moves the bowl? Fifteen inches seems very large for it to have been a toy at doll scale. Yet it was in with dolls. It looks to me like a fold-away work surface, the bowl suggests straight pins near at hand, although does not look large enough for pins? I'm headed in the direction of something to repair dolls or their clothes. Think if it were a saleman's model the real item would need to be at least 6 times larger, making the top surface very big. Could be it though. Given to the dolls' owner as a toy when no longer needed. If it relates to sewing, it would be right in there with other "girls'" toys, such as miniature ovens.[/QUOTE]
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